Research on User Programming Environment in Grid

Principal among the technical obstacles when using the grid environment is usability. Owing to the inherently complex, programs in grid will reflect some of the complexity. To make grid resources useful and accessible effectively to the users, as we think, it requires new software or environment to build and program applications. The goal of the user programming environment of Vega Grid is to simplify the programming of the grid in the same way that the Web simplified information sharing over the Internet. To the end, it is easier for ordinary users to develop, execute, and tune applications on the grid. In this paper, we firstly analyse the properties and capabilities grid programming tools should possess; and then describe our research on end-user programming environment when developing Vega Grid. We are now going to further develop our Grid End-user Programming Environment prototype.